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PORTFOLIO BY SAUL STEINBERG showing ten maps: A map of a human head, with Cuba as a cigar and Miami as an eye; a view south from North America to South America, showing the forty-eight states and Mexico; a map of a flight from Kennedy in New York, to De Gaulle in Paris, connecting intermediate stops: Drink, Shrimp, Chicken, Cake, Coffee, Hypochondria, Paranoia, Hallucinations, Daze, Orange Juice, Danish, and Coffee; "Statistics U.S.A." showing a United States with regions labelled “Perplexed,” “Naive,” “Don’t Know,” “Resigned,” “Confused,” and “Clumsy”; a map of Canal Street and the Holland Tunnel; map of New York City divided into Middle Eastern regions; Washington Heights is labelled Golan Heights; the Upper East Side is West Bank; Brooklyn is Jordan, Saudi and Egypt; Queens is Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, and the southern end of Manhattan is Gaza; map of America labelled “Year 2222 The Guggenheim Junta”--the U.S. is neatly divided into Mondrian-like sectors; map of a boat labelled “Nonsense!” sailing away from a town with roads, “Don’t Know” and “Fantastic!” and city blocks labelled “Devastating!,” “Shit!,” “Sublime!,” and “Terrific!”; map of a global landscape, with the continent “Here” divided by the river “Now” and with the capital city of “Home” plus two smaller towns, La Guardia and Kennedy, in the foreground, the neighboring land of “Last Week,” divided into increasingly-small “Last Year,” 1974,” 1984,” 1990,” 1977,” “!981,”; nearby islands labelled “Dinner,” “There (with a flag marked ‘They’ and a capital city called ‘Hotel’),” “Paris. Rome. London.,” Honolulu, Singapore, Spain, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, “Breakfast,” “Florida,” “L.A.,” “Zurich,” and a large, distant landmass “Next Week,” in the background, with two moons, “Birthday,” and “Next Time,” floating overhead; map of a futuristic “Europe Year 3000” with Scandinavia labelled “Upstate,” Turkey labelled “Kaliphornia,” Crete labelled “England,” Corsica labelled “Cuba,” Sardinia labelled “Hong Kong,” Manhattan and the capitals of Europe situated on the Israeli coastline, Cyprus re-named Las Vegas, and so on.